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| name = Robert Gant | image = Robert Gant at GLAAD Media Awards.jpg | caption = Gant at a 2009 GLAAD summer event | birth_name = Robert John Gonzalez | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1968|7|13}} | birth_place = Tampa, Florida, U.S. | alma_mater = Georgetown University (J.D.) University of Pennsylvania (B.A.) | occupation = Actor, producer | yearsactive = 1994–present | other_names = Robert J. Gant | residence = Los Angeles, California }} Robert Gant (born Robert John Gonzalez; July 13, 1968) is an American actor. He is sometimes credited as Robert J. Gant. Early life and educationGant was born in Tampa, Florida, of Spanish, Italian, Cuban, Irish, and English descent. He was raised Baptist.[1] He began acting in television commercials and joined the Screen Actors Guild at the age of ten in his home state of Florida. At the age of 11, he performed a soft-shoe routine with Bob Hope as part of Hope's USO tour. He majored in English literature at the University of Pennsylvania and then studied law at Georgetown University Law Center. It was his career as a lawyer that brought him to Los Angeles when he accepted a position with the LA office of Chicago-based Baker & McKenzie. The international firm's Los Angeles office was closed soon after. Rather than continuing his career in law, he decided to focus on acting. Television and film careerBetween 2002 and 2005, Gant appeared on television in Showtime's Queer as Folk as Ben Bruckner, his best-known role to date. Prior to Queer as Folk, he appeared in recurring roles in Popular and Caroline in the City. Other guest appearances on television programs include Melrose Place, Ellen, Becker, Friends and Nip/Tuck, among others. In June 2004, Gant starred in the short film Billy's Dad Is a Fudge-Packer!, an homage to 1950s educational films. In 2005, he appeared in an episode of the television crime drama The Closer. In 2007, Gant, Chad Allen and Judith Light acted and produced Save Me. The movie about the ex-gay movement was distributed by Mythgarden, the production company formed by Gant, Allen, and Christopher Racster in 2004. In 2009, Gant appeared in Personal Affairs, a BBC Three-produced drama set in London's financial sector.[2] He also appeared in the independent films Special Delivery, The Contract, Fits and Starts and Marie and Bruce. In 2011, Gant made a cameo appearance in season 1, episode 8 of TV Land's Happily Divorced. In 2015, Gant played Zor-El, the titular character's father in Supergirl. Personal lifeGant is involved in a number of philanthropic organizations with a great deal of focus going to the issue of aging in the gay community. He currently resides in Los Angeles. Gant came out as gay on The Advocate magazine in 2002[3][4] and has been openly gay since.[5][6] ActivismGant supports such organizations as Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE) and Gay & Lesbian Elder Housing (GLEH). He supported Hillary Clinton in her bid for the Democratic Party's Presidential nomination in 2008. FilmographyFilm
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References1. ^http://didoqaf.tripod.com/articles/gant_advocate7.htm 2. ^http://www.bbc.co.uk/personalaffairs/ 3. ^{{cite magazine |first=Bruce C. |last=Steele |date=2002-08-20 |df=mdy |title=Robert Gant works it out |url=https://www.advocate.com/news/2002/07/23/robert-gant-works-it-out |work=The Advocate |accessdate=December 20, 2018 }} 4. ^{{cite magazine |title=Reader Forum |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wmQEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA4&ots=ZQhqErxhh-&dq=%22Robert%20Gant%22%20gay%20-wikipedia&pg=PA4#v=onepage&q=%22Robert%20Gant%22%20gay%20-wikipedia&f=false |page=4 |magazine=The Advocate |accessdate=December 20, 2018 |via=Google Books }} 5. ^{{cite interview |first=Robert |last=Gant |date=2008-05-07 |df=mdy |title=Robert Gant: The spying game |url=http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/Robert-Gant-The-spying-game/18270.html |interviewer=Andrew Davis |work=Windy City Times |accessdate=December 20, 2018 }} 6. ^{{cite magazine |first=Oliver |last=Gettell |title=Robert Gant on romancing Debbie Gibson in Hallmark's Summer of Dreams |date=2016-08-26 |df=mdy |url=https://ew.com/article/2016/08/26/robert-gant-debbie-gibson-summer-dreams-queer-folk/ |work=Entertainment Weekly |accessdate=December 20, 2018 }} External links
17 : 1968 births|20th-century American male actors|21st-century American male actors|American male film actors|American male soap opera actors|American male stage actors|American male television actors|Gay actors|Georgetown University Law Center alumni|Hispanic and Latino American male actors|LGBT entertainers from the United States|LGBT Hispanic and Latino American people|LGBT rights activists from the United States|LGBT people from Florida|Living people|Male actors from Tampa, Florida|University of Pennsylvania alumni |
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